Why would Google use a font tag?

In November 2005, Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer, said: Google’s home page doesn’t validate and that’s mostly by design to save precious bytes. Will the world end because Google doesn’t put quotes around color attributes? No, and it makes the page load faster. Source: Google Blogoscoped – Matt Cutts, Google’s Gadgets Guy (Interview)

Do SVG docs support custom data- attributes?

While other answers are technically correct, they omit the fact that SVG provides an alternative mechanism for data-*. SVG allows any attribute and tag to be included, as long as it doesn’t conflict with existing ones (in other words: you should use namespaces). To use this (equivalent) mechanism: use mydata:id instead of data-myid, like this: … Read more

Valid content-type for XML, HTML and XHTML documents

HTML: text/html, full-stop. XHTML: application/xhtml+xml, or only if following HTML compatbility guidelines, text/html. See the W3 Media Types Note. XML: text/xml, application/xml (RFC 2376). There are also many other media types based around XML, for example application/rss+xml or image/svg+xml. It’s a safe bet that any unrecognised but registered ending in +xml is XML-based. See the … Read more